I managed to check the output of that command and switch back to nouveau before it froze this time. The mouse is still operable but you can see the artifacting I’ve been getting. It looks like I am on x11 as my three options at start are Cinnamon (Default), Cinnamon (Software Rendering), and Cinnamon on Wayland (Experimental). I am about to try Wayland just to see.

I just went in and checked and it looks like it is already off. Out of curiosity, I tried turning on profile one (froze at login, which is what happened after the most recent reboot) and two (froze on black screen before login).

I had some time and updated my bios, then switched over to the 550 driver from the driver manager and upon restart I had the phantom monitor issue which seems to have been fixed by following this post. its only been a few minutes and I haven’t done anything with it yet, so I will update if any more issues come up but I’m feeling hopeful.

Edit: literally the second after posting this reply I got a freeze trying to open steam…

I’ll give that a shot this weekend and see if that ends up fixing the issue! Thanks!

I’ve never heard of him, who is he and what did he do?